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Title: Later Middle Ages


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Christianity and medieval society
  • By Brittaney Hamm!!! ?

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The church shaped politics and society
  • Clergy- Church officials, Their teachings were
    very influential in European culture and
    politics.
  • Society- Life revolved around the local church.
    Markets, festivals, and religious ceremonies took
    place there.
  • Politics- The church also gained political power
    in the middle ages. Many people left land to the
    church when they died.

3
Monks and Friars
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The monks of Cluny
  • Religious order- A group of people who dedicated
    their lives to religion and followed common
    rules.
  • Living apart from society-Most monks lived apart
    from the society.

5
New Orders
  • Some monks thought that even Clunys rules
    werent strict enough. Women created their own
    religious communities in convents.

6
Friars
  • Francis of Assisi- founder of the Franciscan.
  • Friars- Members of the religious orders who lived
    and worked among the general public.
  • Living within society- Friars lived in society.

7
Thomas Aquinas
  • Philosopher who showed how religious faith and
    reason could co-exist. Wrote a reasoned argument
    for the existence of God.
  • Natural Law-Thomas Aquinas concept that god
    created a law that governed how the world
    operated. To show how god had ordered the world.

8
Natural law
  • Law- Thomas Aquinass concept that God created
    law that governed how the world operated.

9
The church and their arts
10
Religious Architectural
  • The great Gothic cathedrals of late medieval
    Europe are among the most beautiful of all
    architectural achievements.

11
Religious art
  • Their spires and high ceilings and colorful
    stained glass windows are all designed to bring
    people closer to God.

12
Magna carta causes changes in England
13
Magna carta
  • Document written by English nobles and signed by
    King John listing rights the king could not
    ignore.

14
Who demanded this agreement?
  • In 1215 a group of English nobles decided to
    force the king to repect their rights. They made
    king John approve a document listing rights the
    king could not ignore.

15
The effects of magna carta
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What were the effects of magna carta
  • The magna carta led more changes. Faced with
    war and financial troubles, the kings turned to a
    council of nobles for advice and money.

17
The three of the demands and why they are
important
  • Before long, the council developed into
    Parliament, the lawmaking body that still governs
    England today.

18
The changes after Magna carta
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What did magna carta inspire the nobles to do
  • Nobles- Created to advise the king. Developed
    into a parliament, the law making body that
    governs England today.

20
Parliament
  • Lawmaking body that governs England.

21
How did the king limit magna carta
  • The king couldnt do anything without the support
    of the parliament.

22
100 years of war
23
The course of the war
24
A French king dies with no heirs
  • In Europe, kings were not giving up their power
    easily, but other events forced political change.

25
Two men claimed throne
  • One was French and the other was a king of
    England.

26
English take the lead
  • The war started when the English king tired to
    take control of France's throne.

27
Joan of arc
  • Teenage peasant girl who rallied the French
    troops and turned the tide of the Hundred years
    of war.

28
Results of the war
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Changes in England
  • In England, Parliaments power grew because the
    king needed parliaments approval to raise money
    to pay for the costly war.
  • As parliament gained more influence, the king
    lost power.

30
Changes in France
  • In France, on the other hand, the kings power
    grew. During the war, the king had become popular
    with his nobles.
  • Fighting the English had created a bond between
    them.
  • As a result, the nobles supported the king after
    the war as well.

31
Democracy in France will have to wait
  • The Democracy in France had to wait because the
    kings power grew.

32
Black Death
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Where it came from
  • Origin- The plague originally came from central
    and eastern asia.

34
How it spread
  • The spread- Traders unknowingly brought rats
    carrying the disease to medirditerrian ports.
    From there it quickly swept throughout much of
    Europe.

35
What disease was it
  • Bubonic plague could be identified by swellings
    called buboes that appeared on victims bodies.

36
Effect on manor life and feudalism/ how many died
  • Black death killed so many people that many were
    buried quickly without priests or ceremonies.
  • How many people died? Well in some villages
    nearly everyone died or fled as neighbors fell
    ill. In England alone, about 1000 villages were
    abandoned.

37
What happened to it
  • Once they had money, many fled their manors
    completely, moving instead to Europe's growing
    cities.
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